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Federated search engines and the development of library systems: ANTAEUS
Nicholas JointThe purpose of this paper is to discuss the recent history of library systems with a view to illustrating the impact of federated search systems on reinvigorating the role of the…
How do school resource centre staff deal with information requests?
Andrew K. ShentonThe purpose of this paper is to use new data to explore the pertinence, to the work of an information professional dealing with inquiries, of an existing typology indicating the…
Students’ attitudes towards e‐books in a Scottish higher education institute: part 2: Analysis of e‐book usage
Noorhidawati Abdullah, Forbes GibbThe purpose of this paper is to present the second part of three inter‐related studies investigating the use and usability of e‐books in higher education based on experiments…
Keeping a learning diary to enhance researchers’ understanding of and users’ skills in web searching
Yazdan MansourianThe purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how using a learning diary can enable researchers to gain a deeper insight into end users’ information searching behaviour and how it…
Scientometric analysis of a sample of physics‐related research output held in the institutional repository Strathprints (2000‐2005)
A.I. Bonilla‐CaleroThe purpose of this paper is to describe a “scientometric” analysis of a sample of research output in Physics taken from the institutional repository of the University of…
Content clouds: classifying content in Web 2.0
Kenneth J. Cosh, Robert Burns, Toby DanielWith increasing amounts of user generated content being produced electronically in the form of wikis, blogs, forums etc. the purpose of this paper is to investigate a new approach…